harharharhar wrote on Dec 5^th, 2017 at 11:24am:

overwhelming majority of trash in high skulls is conveniently held or tanked. bosses tanked if they can be. if not retarded can easily stay alive and contribute massive dps. there is a pure monk that i have done numerous lv30+ r10s with. he isn't 1% of people who play this game. just happens to be smart enough to dps held/tanked/kited mob/boss.

Yea im not smart enough to melee.. too hard..

5 Foot Step wrote on Dec 5^th, 2017 at 10:49am:

So you have some magical unicorn build that can consistently sustain those stats and DPS throughout the course of a 30 minute mission?  Jolly good.  By all means, post some videos of that build running a full mission. 

You've seen the video samples of melee builds like I'm talking about and Rubbins has confirmed what I was saying based on his and others' kobold dojo testing. 

All you've got is a bunch of snark and sobsob agreeing with you.  That's not exactly a stellar case.  That last noteworthy builds jakee did were in 2014 or 2015.  All he's done since then is tweak those same builds with things other people figured out first and claim they copied him.

I never said I was running the best melee build.  Technically I'm on a semi-gimped melee build designed for TRing that's doing that sort of damage in spite of being sub-optimal.  It still hits faster and crits more frequently than a gxbow.

Ya im done with nurfing stuff.. why not just make other builds better?

Bigjunk wrote on Dec 6^th, 2017 at 12:43pm:

Combination of the usual power creep, minor fixes, and people just figuring out the best min/max combinations.

Digimonk wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2017 at 12:34pm:

This.

If they don't, they will.

And it will likely be a stealth buff so they don't have to deal with the player backlash.

Because there is literally no reason for a player to have "Eldritch Blast" deflection, unless it's one of the precious few people on 7 servers who still does PvP.

They are apparently thinking of adding an anti ranged reaper with deflection.

Bigjunk wrote on Dec 6^th, 2017 at 12:57pm:

better off with pure monk because jade tomb, but pure ranger will be good too. new gear just throws doublestrike at you. 15 set bonus, 20-23 item, 10 insightful item. then new iconic race tree is dope as well.

Rubbinns wrote on Dec 6^th, 2017 at 2:59pm:


the DPS fall off you are characterizing throwers having matters in your scenario against a 1m HP mob if the melee and the thrower are being compared against that thing solo. Otherwise the share of DPS they have to do to kill it is reduced a great deal by party members, thereby lessening the importance of sustained DPS versus burst DPS.

Bigjunk wrote on Dec 6^th, 2017 at 4:50pm:

you'll just have to "settle" for dance of death

harharharhar wrote on Dec 6^th, 2017 at 5:28pm:

The 1m HP mob solo is really an example.  It serves reasonably well to represent the performance of a given build over the course of an entire mission.

In a vacuum aka very limited test scenarior aka dojo kobold where the target can be killed in 30s or less, you get to test the max potential of a build's short-term burst DPS capability.  That capability is often very different from a build's capability to sustain a given level of DPS over the course of a 30+ minute mission.  That's why relying solely on dojo kobold tests to form your DDO build worldview is a bad idea.  Kobold results do not accurately reflect the potential of a build across a 30-45 minute mission.

This is what reaper changed.  Pre-reaper, most missions in the game could be zerged in 15 minutes or less with a skilled group.  Short completion times heavily favor burst DPS over slightly lower, but more consistent sustained DPS.

With mid to high skull reaper missions, completion times on good runs often exceed 30 minutes.  The longer the mission takes, the more it favors high, sustained DPS over short-duration burst spikes.  This is where good DPS melee builds excel.

In 7-10 skull lvl 30+ missions, most trash has ~10-15k hps.  Neg level and vorpal fishing is an okay tactic, but it's no better than sustained raw DPS done properly and it's worse when it comes to bosses.  The best option is to have a somewhat balanced party where you have a caster that's CC primary, instakill secondary spec'd, 2 melee DPS, 1 ranged DPS, and a tank and healer.  That's what provide the smoothest, fastest mission clears in 7-10 skull reaper in my experience across about 35 reaper points worth of end-game missions.

Rubbinns wrote on Dec 1^st, 2017 at 8:05am:



Wow, now it is either I can see the future ( http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1511423423 ) or the management's modus operandi has become too obvious in the last decade.